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James Donner
13 November 2015

Juju Charmer Summit: A Kickoff

Cloud and server Article

The first ever Juju Charmer Summit was held this September in the Washington DC area. This event gathered the Juju community into one physical space to share our knowledge, to share success stories and best practices, and to grow our skills together. It also provided everyone the chance to meet Charmers and Juju contributors in ...


Thibaut Rouffineau
12 November 2015

Eclipse’con Europe 2015 : Agile embedded development!

Internet of Things Article

Last week was Eclipse’con Europe, the yearly Eclipse Foundation European conference. Eclipse’con has taken place in Ludwigsburg, Germany for the last 10 years… and what a difference these years have made in the world of  both embedded development and embedded Linux.  These changes can be summarised in 2 sentences: Out goes: “Let’s make em ...


Ellen Arnold
12 November 2015

Akanda joins the Charm Partner Programme

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is excited to announce that Akanda has joined the Charm Partner Programme (CPP). Canonical’s CPP helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling with a click of a mouse. The Juju Charm Store has over 300 cloud based applic ...


Maarten Ectors
11 November 2015

Canonical Demos the power of IoT to developers with the Samsung ARTIK

Internet of Things Article

Canonical and Samsung will be at this year’s ARM TechCon to show off the power of snappy Ubuntu Core on the Samsung ARTIK 5 and ARTIK 10 modules. The companies will demonstrate how combining Samsung ARTIK and snappy Ubuntu Core results in an easy-to-use development platform for internet-connected devices, enabling developers to lower cost ...


Jay R. Wren
10 November 2015

Converting eth0 to br0 and getting all your LXC or LXD onto your LAN

Cloud and server Article

Wayne has a great post on the new juju lxd work. I’ve been using it a bit and it is awesome. It is super fast and I can create and destroy environments faster than creating and destroying with juju-local. One thing which I’ve done which has made all LXC and LXD instances more valuable to … Continue reading Converting eth0 to br0 and getti ...


dimitern
8 November 2015

Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju

Cloud and server Article

In the past months our Juju Core Sapphire team has been working on the design, planning, and implementation of a set of extended networking features for Juju 1.25 and the upcoming (January 2016) 1.26 releases. The main focus is enabling users of Juju to have a finer-grained control over how their services are deployed on read more » ...


James Donner
6 November 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: October 2015

Cloud and server Article

We had a very busy month, with the new release of Ubuntu 15.10 and the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo. We are proud to announce that the OpenStack Foundation survey results show that Ubuntu runs 65% of large OpenStack clouds. Meanwhile, we are preparing for a new webinar, have a brand new Big Data eBook, updates ...


Dean Henrichsmeyer
6 November 2015

Using LXD with a file-based ZFS pool on Ubuntu Wily

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily) comes natively with some technology previously only available in PPAs. LXD is a container hypervisor that enables and facilitates extensive and powerful management of LXC containers. It’s great for dense deployments, development environments, and specifically workloads that need to be as performant as possible… ones wh ...


Amrisha Prashar
5 November 2015

Scope Roulette

Phone and tablet Article

To celebrate Scopes we’ve launched Scope Roulette! It’s an interactive game that gives you a chance to learn more about Scopes by swiping those visible on your screen. When the Scope stops, users can learn more about that particular Scope and have the chance of entering a draw to win prizes. The functionality of the ...


Dustin Kirkland
5 November 2015

LXD in the Sky with Diamonds

Cloud and server Article

Picture yourself containers on a server With systemd trees and spawned tty’s Somebody calls you, you answer quite quickly A world with the density so high – Sgt. Graber’s LXD Smarts Club Band Last week, we proudly released Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily) — the final developer snapshot of the Ubuntu Server before we focus the majority ...


Canonical
5 November 2015

Canonical launches world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD

Cloud and server Article

London, November 5th 2015 – Canonical today released in beta the world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD, which takes a pure-container approach to Linux virtualization and offers dramatic performance and density advantages over VMware ESX and Linux KVM for private and public cloud infrastructure. LXD delivers up to 15 times the density of KVM for ...